A Brief Report on Voice Mismatch Effects
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The research reported here is part of a larger project investigating similarities and differences among varieties of ellipsis constructions, including VP ellipsis, Sluicing, Pseudogapping, Gapping and NP ellipsis. Merchant (2008), and more recently Tanaka (2011), have claimed that while VP ellipsis (VPE) can tolerate a mismatch in voice between antecedent and ellipsis site, Pseudogapping and Sluicing cannot. Merchant derives this from the claim that the [VOICE] feature is within the Pseudogapping and Sluicing ellipsis sites but is above the VPE ellipsis site, so the value of [VOICE] is relevant to the former but not the latter. We present the results of a Magnitude Estimation experiment (Bard et al., 1996) examining this prediction in VP Ellipsis (1) and Sluicing (2).
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